Equitable subdivisions within polygonal regions

  • Authors:
  • Sergey Bereg;Prosenjit Bose;David Kirkpatrick

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas, Box 830688, Richardson, TX 75083, USA;School of Computer Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6, Canada;Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, V6T 1Z4, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications - Special issue on the Japan conference on discrete and computational geometry 2004
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We prove a generalization of the Ham-Sandwich Theorem. Specifically, let P be a simple polygonal region containing |R|=kn red points and |B|=km blue points in its interior with k=2. We show that P can be partitioned into k relatively-convex regions each of which contains exactly n red and m blue points. A region of P is relatively-convex if it is closed under geodesic (shortest) paths in P. We outline an O(kN^2log^2N) time algorithm for computing such a k-partition, where N=|R|+|B|+|P|.